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#1

“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!

(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
― Russell T. Davies

tags: books, doctor-who, knowledge, library, reading, weapons

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#2

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: customer-service, knowledge

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#3

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: knowledge, life

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#4

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: knowledge, philosophy

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#5

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

tags: knowledge

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#6

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
― Albert Einstein

tags: disagreement, dissent, equanimity, expressing, knowledge, opinions, prejudices, social, society, thought

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#7

“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”
― Bill Bullard

tags: accountability, ego, empathy, inspirational, knowledge, opinion

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#8

“To know that you do not know is the best.
To think you know when you do not is a disease.
Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: ignorance, knowledge

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#9

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”
― Assata Shakur

tags: assata-shakur, education, heroes, history, knowledge

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#10

“Knowledge always has the potential to be dangerous. It is a more powerful weapon than any sword or spell.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

tags: knowledge, margaret-rogerson, powerful, sorcery-of-thorns

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#11

“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .”
― John Adams, The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States

tags: cherish, knowledge, read, think

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#12

“Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. ”
― Abigail Adams

tags: adam-and-eve, bible, christianity, feminism, genesis, knowledge, motherhood, old-testement, religion

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#13

“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”
― W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

tags: humanity, ignorance, knowledge, poverty, truth, wickedness

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#14

“There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”
― W.E.B. DuBois, Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept

tags: coward, knowledge

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#15

“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
― Nicolaus Copernicus

tags: copernicus, knowledge, wisdom

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#16

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#17

“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: immortality, knowledge, learning, sharing, teaching

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#18

“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Including Essays, First & Second Series, English Traits, Nature & Considerations by the Way

tags: 1844, education, education-system, knowledge

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#19

“I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”
― Albert Einstein, On Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms

tags: evolution, imagination, knowledge, science

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#20

“It does not matter where you go and what you study, what matters most is what you share with yourself and the world.”
― Santosh Kalwar

tags: knowledge, learning, study, studying, wisdom

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#21

“The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”
― Diane Arbus, Revelations

tags: education, intelligence, knowledge, life

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#22

“You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#23

“Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche. ”
― Michael Jackson

tags: knowledge

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#24

“One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: art, disposition, happiness, knowledge, light-disposition

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#25

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

tags: ideas, libraries, sarah-j-maas, throne-of-glass

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#26

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries

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#27

“I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: education, libraries, self-education

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#28

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
― Harold Howe

tags: education, libraries, library, school

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#29

“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.

[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: banned-books, bill-of-rights, books, censorship, freedom-of-thought, liberty, libraries

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#30

“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”
― Andrew Carnegie

tags: books, community, enrich, libraries

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